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"Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back!
If you say, 'See, we did not know this'
Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
And will He not render to man according to his work?"
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| 1939 October – August 1941: In Germany – by Aktion T4 – 70,273 people terminated, including many children. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In Germany – SS Obersturmfuhrer KARL ADOLF EICHMANN releases a document detailing plans to deport Jews to Madagascar, a French colony in southern Africa. Although the plan is not implemented he is promoted to the rank of Sturmbannfuhrer for his efforts. In southern Italy – The villagers of San Nicandro begin to convert to Judaism under the influence of DONATO MANDUZIO, and, after 1948, most migrate to the State of Israel. In Nasielsky, Poland – The Nazi SS hold a whipping orgy; whipping 1,600 Jews throughout the night. (Johnson 1996, p.13). |
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| January: | Reports of mass executions and atrocities in Poland by the SS cause unrest among German troops in the West. But German army officers in the East only complain of the SS "terrorism" of non-Jewish civilians. All complaints are radically suppressed. No significant objections to killing Jews are registered.
German General FRANZ VON ROCQUES tells General WILHELM VON LEEB that mass shooting of Jews will simply not work:
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| March: | France and Britain sign an agreement that neither will enter into a separate armistice or peace agreement with Germany. (See June 22). |
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| In | Poland – CHAIM A KAPLAN in his Warsaw Diary writes with insight –
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| April | 9: German troops occupy Denmark and Norway. |
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| May | 2: In Warsaw, Poland – CHAIM A KAPLAN writes his observation –
10: Germany begins the attack on Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. In Netherlands anti-Jewish activities begin. In Germany – HITLER considers accommodating Britain's opposition to persecution of Jews by requiring France to make Madagascar available to dump all the Jews of Europe, in exchange for peace. |
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| June | 4: In Britain – CHURCHILL rallies the civilian population of Britain to resist Hitler with his famous words –
14: In France – German troops capture Paris. 16: In France – Prime Minister PAUL REYNARD resigns. 21: In France – 27 members of the National Assembly flee to North Africa. |
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New York, USA – 'WILLIAM STEPHENSON' is sent by UK Prime Minister Churchill to establish and run British Security Coordination (BSC) initial directives for BSC being to –
STEPHENSON works without salary, hires Canadian women to staff his organization and covers much of the expense out of his own pocket. His employees include secretive communications genius Benjamin deForest, "Pat" Bayly, future advertising wizard David Ogilvy, Amy Elizabeth Thorpe (codenamed CYNTHIA) to seduce Vichy French officials into giving up Enigma ciphers and secrets from their Washington embassy. (At the height of the war Bayly, a University of Toronto professor from Moose Jaw, creates the Rockex, the fast secure communications system that is eventually relied on by all WW2 Allies). |
A little man called 'Intrepid' see: April 1936 and January 23, 1897. |
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| In | 22: In Rethondes, France – France signs an armistice with Germany in violation of its agreement with Britain. (See March). 23: In France – Marshall PHILLIPE PÉTAIN, as French prime minister, appoints known Anti-Semite LAVAL as his deputy. Iraq – A pro-Nazi coup causes extensive attacks on Jews leading to the death of 180 Jews. |
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| July | 3: Britain destroys the French fleet at Mers el-Kebir in view of its alliance with Germany.
10: In France – The National Assembly of France (composed of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies) votes in favour of handing all executive and legislative power and authority to the fascist prime minister, Marshall PHILLIPE PÉTAIN, and to revise the French constitution. Voting is as follows –
250 members fail to attend the National Assembly.Of the 80 who vote against: 22 are imprisoned, 10 deported, and 5 die in concentration camps. |
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12: In France – The fascist French State (L'État Français) is inaugurated at Vichy. 22: In Germany – HITLER's idea of 'total war' is presented to the German army, involving the extermination of Jewish populations in conflict areas. 27: In France – The government abolishes the Marchandeau decree, thus opening the way for anti-Jewish activities. |
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August:
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In Palestine – AVRAHAM STERN (אברהם שטרן), founder of LeHI Jewish terror group, puts forth the fascist ideology of his organization in what is called the 18 Principles of Rebirth ('Zionism' having become a political ideology):
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See: Israel's Right to Canaan/Palestine See: Zionist Hostilities |
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| September | 15: In France – An article in Revue des Deux Mondes by Marshall PÉTAIN, expresses his pro-Nazi views, saying –
30: In Germany – Jews are banned from using telephones. |
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| October | In Germany: 6,500 Jews are expelled from the Palatinate and Baden. In France: French Police carry out a census of Jews. 2: SCHIRACH reports to HITLER that the 50,000 Viennese Jews are ready for deportation. 3: The PÉTAIN government issues its anti-Jewish first Statut des Juifs. 18: In Occupied France – German occupying authorities decree that all Jewish businesses in the occupied zone must be registered and identified with a notice in German and French to that effect. Any legal contract with a Jew made after 23 May 1940 is to be considered void. 27: In Vichy France – The fascist government issues a circular imposing registration on Jewish businesses with activities in the occupied zone even if the main office is in the Vichy zone. |
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November: HITLER exports nearly 7,000 Jews from Baden and Palatinate to fascist Vichy France. 20: In France – The Minister of Justice, RAPHAËL ALIBERT, issues a circular requiring a list of all Jewish magistrates for their immediate dismissal. In France – Jewish American writer, GERTRUDE STEIN shamefully describes the head of the Vichy French State, Marshall PÉTAIN, as "the heroic father of France and embodiment of the French nation" in spite of his armistice with Nazi Germany in betrayal of Britain and his open anti-Semitic views. 25: In Palestine – S.S.Patria is blown up by Jewish terrorists in Haifa harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants. |
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December 26: In Mauritius – Two ships carrying 1,581 Jewish refugees arrive in Port Louis, after many months in transit between Nazi Europe and various British internment camps. |
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For the Complete Extermination of European Jewry
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| In | Germany – Some churchmen now object to HITLER's T4 Programme (although not to his anti-Semitism), but unfortunately its target of terminating 70,000 mentally or physically disabled Germans has already been reached. (See October 1939). |
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| January | 21: In Ankara, Turkey – A letter of January 11 from Jewish terror organisation in Palestine, LeHI (Stern Gang), is sent to Berlin from Vice Admiral RALF VON DER MARWITZ, the German Naval attaché via the German Ambassador in Turkey, presenting an offer to "actively take part in the war on Germany's side" in return for German support for "the establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich." (Agent NAPHTALI LUBINCZIK had been sent by LHI to Vichy-controlled Beirut to meet two Germans, Alfred Roser, a Military Intelligence agent, and Werner Otto von Hentig of the German Foreign Office, where LHI's proposal was handed over and sent to Ankara).
HITLER considers the Jewish proposal but turns it down as he does not want an independent Jewish state in Palestine. |
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27: In France – A constitutional act is passed requiring all members of PÉTAIN's Vichy government, high officials and dignitaries of the French State – "to swear allegiance to his person". |
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| March: | In Germany – HIMMLER orders the expansion of Auschwitz as an extermination centre. |
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26: In France – Protestant church leader, MARC BOEGNER (President of the Fédération Protestante de France), sends a letter to the Chief Rabbi of France, ISAIAH SCHWARTZ, expressing the sadness of Protestants at government measures and actions which affected French Jews.
The letter is circulated in the occupied zone, which results in greater sympathy and aid toward the victims. |
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| May: | In Palestine – The creation of the Palmah, the 'strike units' of the Jewish Haganah. The Irgun Zeva'i Le'ummi (Irgun) decides to cooperate with the British against the Nazis. This leads to the secession of Lohamei Herut Israel (LeHI) by AVRAHAM (YAIR) STERN. |
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| In | Germany – 500 middle-aged police reservists from Hamburg (three quarters of whom were not members of the Nazi Party), who are drafted into the 'Order Police' as volunteers, begin their complicity in the murder or deportation to their death of over 80,000 Jews! |
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| June | 2: HITLER informs MUSSOLINI of his plan that all European (remaining) Jews be exported to Madagascar after the war. 27: In Bialystok – German Police Battalion 309 slaughters 2,000 Jews. In Iaşi, Romania – More than 13,266 Jews are massacred (this number is only of those identified) and buried in a mass grave by troops of Col. CONSTANTIN LUPU, commander of the Iasi garrison, under instruction of Romanian dictator ION ANTONESCU. |
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| July: | In Brest-Litovsk – German Police Battalion 307 slaughters 6,000 to 10,000 Jews. 1-7: In Kovno, Lithuania – Lithuanian police units, under German command, publicly shoot 3,000 Jews. Lithuanian civilians slaughter 3,800 Jews in the city's streets in a killing frenzy of bludgeoning, slashing, and shooting. 12-13: In Bialystok – German Police Battalion 316 slaughters 3,000 Jews. |
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22: In France – the pro-Nazi French government passes the discriminatory Statut des Juifs to eliminate all Jewish influence from the French national economy, among other, depriving Jews of legal rights over their property. |
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31: In Germany – GÖRING in a letter to HEYDRICH writes –
An oral order of HITLER is conveyed to EICHMANN by HEYDRICH –
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| c.August: | In Siauliai – German Police Battalion 65 slaughters 3,000 Jews.
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| August: | A German police unit, presided over by JECKELN, kills 44,125 Jews in the East. Other units achieve similar counts.
In Cêsis, Latvia – German security police and military celebrate the slaughter of its Jews with a Totenmahl (death banquet). In Germany – Jews between the ages of 18 and 45 are no longer permitted to emigrate. 1: An "explicit order" by HIMMLER is issued to SS units who are preparing to sweep the Pripyet marshes –
In answer, Obersturmbannfuhrer Magill replies –
LONGERICH later estimated the number killed in the marshes at about 14,000. 19: HITLER approves Judentransport aus Berlin (Jew-transport from Berlin) for deportation. 27-28: In Kamenets-Podolski – German Police Battalion 320 slaughters 23,600 Jews. 30: In Myadel, Poland – twenty-one Myadel Jews are massacred at the bridge (among them the Rabbi AVRAM SHMUEL KOSCZEVSKY) by the local Poles and by German soldiers. |
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| September: | In Block 11, Auschwitz – The first gassing using Zyklon-B is carried out on 250 Jewish hospital patients and 600 Russian prisoners. In Lvov – German Police Battalion 32 slaughters thousands of Jews. In Zhitomir – German Police Battalion 303 slaughters 18,000 Jews. |
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1: A law is published requiring all Jews in German territories to always wear a prominent yellow star on their clothing. (See: December 17). In German controlled Kiev, the first systematic slaughter of Jews begins, supported by Ukrainian militia. Within a month the slaughter count reaches 75,000. 12: In Berdichev – German Police Battalion 45 slaughters 1,000 Jews. 26: In Sajmiste – German Police Battalion 64 slaughters 6,000 Jews. 29-30: In Babi Yar – German Police Battalions 45/303 slaughter 33,000 Jews. |
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| October-December: | Germany Special Action Groups (Einsatzgruppen) of the S.S. execute 300,000 Jews in occupied areas. A further 700,000 Jews are reported to have died in Polish ghettos since 1940. |
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| October: | In Austria – Nazi SS Dr ARIBERT FERDINAND HEIM is sent into the KZ Mauthausen, where he performs medical experiments on prisoners, removing organs without using anaesthetics and injecting various poisons into the heart to evaluate speed of death. He is later sent to an SS field hospital in Vienna. (See his photo in 1950, death August 1992, July 2007 reward). In Italy – Pope PIUS XII rejects the idea of a "just war" against Nazi Germany and disapproves American entrance into war against HITLER. ADOLF EICHMANN approves the use of mobile gas-trucks to exterminate Jews arriving in Riga. In Paris, France – German SS, with French collaborators, bomb Jewish synagogues, and confiscate art owned by Jews. In Delatyn – German Police Battalion 133 slaughters 2,000 Jews. 3: HITLER publicly blames "international Jewry" for Britain's continued opposition. 6: HITLER announces that all Jews in the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate are to be deported to the East. 12: In Stanislawów – German Police Battalion 133 slaughters 12,000 Jews, concluding with a victory celebration. 16: In Nadvornaya – German Police Battalion 133 slaughters 2,000 Jews. 19: In France – The French government sets up the 'Police aux Questions Juives' (PQJ), under Police control and answerable to the Ministry of the Interior. They later become renowned for their cruelty and robbing of Jewish internees at Drancy. 20: In France – the government through PIERRE PUCHEU, Minister of Industrial Production, selects a list of hostages for execution by the German military commander. |
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25: WINSTON CHURCHILL (UK) and ROOSEVELT (US) make simultaneous statements warning Germany of retribution for crimes against civilians after the war.
In his table talk HITLER says –
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| November: | The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem HAJ AMIN al-HUSSEINI (dismissed as mufti by the British in 1936 for inciting rioting against Jewish immigration) now flees to Germany and meets with HITLER and other Nazi leaders to rally support. HITLER tells him the Jews are also his foremost enemy, but rebuffs his request for a declaration in support of the Palestinian Arabs, telling him the time is not right. In Dnepropetrovsk – German Police Battalion 314 slaughters thousands of Jews. In Mogilev – German Police Battalion 316 slaughters 3,700 Jews. 7-8: In Rovno – German Police Battalions 96/320 slaughter 21,000 Jews. 30: In Riga – A trainload of Jews deported from Berlin is massacred on arrival. Estimates of 13-15,000 were given by defendants in post-war trials, but the figure of 27,800 reported by Einsatzgruppe A unit at the time is probably more correct. |
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the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, between Whitby and Oshawa, Canada – WILLIAM STEPHENSON (born Stanger, code-named 'Intrepid') of British Security Coordination (BSC) in New York establishes 'Camp X' (jointly operated by BSC and the Government of Canada) to train under-cover operatives. The camp is originally designed to link Britain and the United States at a time when the US is forbidden by its Neutrality Act to be directly involved in World War II. |
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This is the first training school for clandestine operations in Canada and North America. About 2,000 British, Canadian and American covert operators are trained (from 1941 through 1945), including students from ISO, American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), United States Navy and Military Intelligence, and the United States Office of War Information, among them five future directors of what would later become the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), etc. |
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In the Soviet Union – German Police Battalion 9 completes 6 months in which hundreds of thousands of Jews are slaughtered. In the Soviet Union – German Police Battalion 3 begins mass killings of Jews that eventually number hundreds of thousands. In Riga – German Police Battalion 22 slaughters 25,000 Jews in two months (November-December). |
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17: In Germany – Seven Protestant regional church confederations issue a statement agreeing with the policy of forcing Jews to wear the yellow badge, adding –
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